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Consider yourself warned. Giambattista Bodoni, the unfortunate mouthpiece through which Eco delivers his latest novel, “The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana,” will spare you little effort...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Novel Probes Postmodern Predicament Via Protagonist’s Selective Amnesia | 7/15/2005 | See Source »

...story begins when Bodoni, a “sixtyish” antiquarian book-dealer whose name Eco appears to have taken from the eighteenth-century typographer, awakes from a coma with no memory of his former life or identity. Through some loophole in the threads of fate, however, he knows all of Western literature and a good deal of history and popular psychology par coeur...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Novel Probes Postmodern Predicament Via Protagonist’s Selective Amnesia | 7/15/2005 | See Source »

...Arthur Gordon Pym?” Bodoni suggests. “Call me…Ishamael...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Novel Probes Postmodern Predicament Via Protagonist’s Selective Amnesia | 7/15/2005 | See Source »

Despite his confusion, Bodoni, nicknamed “Yambo,” is soon discharged from the hospital. He returns home with his wife Paola, with whom he has had several children and, apparently, led a happy life, despite the occasional extramarital dalliance...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Novel Probes Postmodern Predicament Via Protagonist’s Selective Amnesia | 7/15/2005 | See Source »

...other hand, sometimes newly empowered amateur typographers make "uneducated choices" and stick to them. The now-ubiquitous "Times Roman," originally designed for a London newspaper. Replaces such older faces as"Bodoni," "Bembo," and "Baskeryille." The people wield power in the new technology-driven typography, but most people are simultaneously intrigued by novelties and resistant to change...

Author: By Dante E.A. Ramos, | Title: An Exhibition of a Different Type | 2/11/1993 | See Source »

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